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Making A Movement: The Linking Of The Sabbath And Heavenly Sanctuary Ministry Of Jesus In Early Adventist History
This presentation presents the historical development of Seventh-day Adventist theology up to about 1850 as it relates to the core doctrinal distinctive that linked the Sabbath to the heavenly sanctuary ministry of Jesus in the Most Holy Place. This linkage gave the Sabbath eschatological importance and called Adventists to world evangelism in light of the gospel and the soon coming of Jesus. Sabbatarian Adventists who understood the historical progression of prophecies in Daniel and Revelation identified the period after 1844 as the time of the end. They connected an end-time investigative judgment and the sanctuary ministry of Jesus to the Sabbath in the three angels’ message. This made the three angels’ message the foundational basis for Seventh-day Adventist gospel evangelism.
Martin Pröbstle, Himmel auf Erden: Gott begegnet uns im Heiligtum
Martin Pröbstle, Himmel auf Erden: Gott begegnet uns im Heiligtum (St. Peter, Austria: Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen, 2013), 259 pp. US$20.00. Martin Pröbstle is an Old Testament professor at Bogenhofen Seminary in Austria. Himmel auf Erden is an expanded version of his book Where God and I Meet:...
New In-Depth Study on the Book of Revelation
Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller, deputy director of the Biblical Research Institute, has written an in-depth study of the book of Revelation in German. Der Erste und der Letzte: Studien zum Buch der Offenbarung ( The First and the Last: Studies in the Book of Revelation ) was published in the series Adv...
Christ At His Sanctuary
Paper presented at dialogue with World Evangelical Alliance, Andrews University, August 6, 2007
God's Presence in the Sanctuary: A Theology of His Nearness
Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Faith #23: "Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary. There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle which the Lord set up and not man. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to believers the benefits of His atoning sacrifice offered onc...
New Book on Sanctuary Themes in Hebrews
Come Boldly to the Throne: Sanctuary Themes in Hebrews , written by Ekkehardt Mueller, has been published recently by the Pacific Press. The author takes a fresh look at the Letter to the Hebrews and deals predominantly with Jesus in the context of the sanctuary. On a thematic basis he walks his ...
Eden and the Israelite Sanctuary
Genesis 2:4-3:24 contains terminology and concepts associated in the Old Testament with the theology of the sanctuary. This has led some to suggest that the Garden "was a type of archetypal sanctuary." Although Eden was not a sanctuary in the sense in which the Israelite tabernacle was, we find ...
Genesis 1 and the Building of the Israelite Sanctuary
During the last 25 years the scholarly world has been interested in the study of the rituals performed in connection with the Israelite tabernacle. Linguistic and theological studies have contributed to a better understanding of the book of Leviticus and the sacrificial system of the Old Testamen...
Light in the Shadows*
I. Sanctuaries of Salvation Buildings have always been of major in terest to man, whether these structures are mud huts or towering skyscrapers. The first recorded group venture after the Flood was a project to build “a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven” (Gen. 11:4). Men have made...
The Sanctuary and Its Cleansing
Introduction Of all the prophecies of the Bible, those centering on Daniel 8 and 9 are the most critical for Seventh-day Adventists. Here we find the 2300 days, the sanctuary, and its cleansing. These prophecies focused the message of William Miller and the pioneers of our movement, and they are ...
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Is tithing normative for Christians? For some, a cursory look at the passages on tithing shows that in biblical times the tithe functioned primarily to sustain the Levites and priests as their reward for the service of the sanctuary and, therefore, because Jesus’ death brought an end to the sacri...
The Character of God through the Lens of Creation
The Genesis creation account not only explains the origins of the world and humanity; it also offers profound insight into the character of the Creator. At the outset, we should note that the placement of Genesis 1 at the opening of Scripture is profoundly significant. As J. Richard Middleton obs...
Why Didn't Adam and Eve Die Immediately?
Because Adam and Eve did not die on the exact day that they ate of the forbidden fruit, it is sometimes claimed that since one day is with the Lord as a thousand years (2 Pet 3:8) and Adam lived less than a thousand years (Gen 5:5), Adam, therefore, did die within that one-thousand-year “day.” An...